(01-14-2012 05:55 PM)mirandagirl Wrote: I heard lots of good things about Scott Hicks.

Excerpted from Wikipedia:

Hicks is best known as the screenwriter and director of Shine, the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Geoffrey Rush won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal as Helfgott, and the film was also nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Armin Mueller-Stahl), Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, Best Picture, and Best Writing-Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. The AFI Awards gave it significant recognition as well, with nine nominations total.

Hicks's first Hollywood studio film Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) starring Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow, and Sam Shepard also received an Academy Award nomination. This was followed in 2001 by the adaptation of Stephen King's novel Hearts in Atlantis starring Anthony Hopkins.

After working on Hearts in Atlantis, Hicks decided to take time off and enjoy living at home. In that time, he fell into working on television commercials. Hicks also enjoyed success in the world of American television commercials (which he terms "multi-million dollar mini-movies") – one of which was inducted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

More than six years later, Hicks resurfaced as a director in No Reservations. He followed that up with a more personal project, shooting a feature-length documentary on the iconic composer Philip Glass. This film premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival to great acclaim and has since been released in the U.S. and at film festivals around the world.